Just wondering what speeds senior racers get up to in a sprint.
I race at under 16 level and we have restricted gears (so our sprints are usually limited to about 33/34 MPH). But (just for kicks) I unrestricted my gearing for training yesterday to check what speed I could do.
On a dead flat road, with a 10MPH crosswind (although it was coming slightly from behind aswell) I went up to 39 MPH in a 52x12 gear.
I'm pretty sure thats not a bad speed, especially bearing in mind that I've only started doing sprints in training in the last three weeks (and only once a week since then).
One final question, will doing a lot of sprints hurt me on a climb? Will I put on a lot of weight in fast twitch muscle fibres?
I race at under 16 level and we have restricted gears (so our sprints are usually limited to about 33/34 MPH). But (just for kicks) I unrestricted my gearing for training yesterday to check what speed I could do.
On a dead flat road, with a 10MPH crosswind (although it was coming slightly from behind aswell) I went up to 39 MPH in a 52x12 gear.
I'm pretty sure thats not a bad speed, especially bearing in mind that I've only started doing sprints in training in the last three weeks (and only once a week since then).
One final question, will doing a lot of sprints hurt me on a climb? Will I put on a lot of weight in fast twitch muscle fibres?